Some Kids I Taught and

What They Taught Me

 By
Kate Clanchy
Pan MacMillan
 Winner of the Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2020.

'The best book on teachers and children and writing that I've ever
read. No-one has said better so much of what so badly needs saying'
- Philip Pullman

Kate Clanchy wants to change the world and thinks school is an

excellent place to do it. She invites you to meet some of the kids she
has taught in her thirty-year career.

Join her as she explains everything about sex to a classroom of

thirteen-year-olds. As she works in the school 'Inclusion Unit',
trying to improve the fortunes of kids excluded from regular lessons
because of their terrifying power to end learning in an instant. Or as
she nurtures her multicultural poetry group, full of migrants and
refugees, watches them find their voice and produce work of
heartbreaking brilliance.

While Clanchy doesn't deny stinging humiliations or hide painful

accidents, she celebrates this most creative, passionate and
practically useful of jobs. Teaching today is all too often demeaned,
diminished and drastically under-resourced. Some Kids I Taught
and What They Taught Me will show you why it shouldn't be.

Pan MacMillan

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